Patent GB-533837-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to ticket-delivery machines
IPC: G07F17/42
Filed: 1939-12-04
Abstract: 533,837. Ticket-delivering apparatus. SOC. ANON. OFFICINE DI VILLAR PEROSA. Dec. 4, 1939, No. 31426. Convention date, Dec. 7, 1938. [Class 27] A machine for automatically delivering tickets of a fixed value and provided with means for effecting check records, is automatically actuated by all possible combinations for forming this fixed value by means of coins of two or more different values. Each coin inserted into, and accepted by, the machine imparts to two or more movable members a rectilinear or rocking movement of definite amplitude proportional to the value of the coin, and only when the full value is reached do the movable members attain a position in which they close an electric circuit starting the ticket-printing and check-stripprinting devices and actuating the totalizator and a counter recording the number of operating cycles of the machine, even when this is actuated by hand for checking purposes. The coin-insertion slot for the higher denomination is automatically closed when insertion of another coin would bring the total inserted to a sum greater than necessary. This is effected by electromagnets 51, 52, Fig. 9, which are energized by electric contacts made by the coins in passing down their respective shoots. The magnets raise spring-controlled sectors 69, 70 through pawls 67, 68 acting on ratchet teeth on the sectors, the teeth and levers for the sectors being proportioned to suit the relative values of the coins. The sectors carry electric conduction strips which after a certain advance close contacts for magnets 82, 94, Fig. 8. and through linkages close slots F. F' by means of shutters 15. 102 pivoted at 16, 101. The shutters are released for retraction by springs 50, 50<SP>1</SP> by withdrawing trip levers 49, 104 by a cam 45. The conductor strips serve also to light up indicator lamps showing how many of each type of coin have been inserted. A knob 122 allows of rocking of a coin platform 112 whereby the coins may be recovered if the knob is pressed before the full number have been inserted. A motor-driven cam 92 rocks the platform in the other direction to pass the coins to the reservoir when the machine starts. Should the ticket strip C, Fig. 11, break during operation a feeler normally bearing on the strip makes electric contact which energizes a magnet 1 and interposes a shutter 17, behind the slot F<SP>1</SP>, the shutter 15 being coupled thereto so as to close also the slot F. The printing is effected by a roll 126 against which the strip C is pressed by a lever 130<SP>1</SP> actuated by a double cam 134 which turns once for each actuation of the machine. A cooperating cam 144 moves a counter Co and. when a lever L is turned through 90 degrees, a counter Co<SP>1</SP> for summing up void tickets. These are printed on a supplementary strip C<SP>1</SP> the printing roller 129 of which is carried by the lever 130<SP>1</SP>. The inserted coins pass counterfeit detectors, and form piles on the platforms 112 which are visible through windows in the casing. When the machine is ready for operation a white light is shown. On starting the machine this is replaced by a red light, and if the strip tears or approaches its end a green light appears.